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Echoing concerns about election integrity, she cites vulnerabilities in voting machines susceptible to hacking and the importance of paper ballots and voter-verified backups. She points to successful reforms in Virginia and other states that adopted these measures after exposing weaknesses at conferences like DEFCON, where even 11-year-olds demonstrated that voting systems could be compromised in minutes.
Gabbard stresses that without transparent and secure elections, democratic legitimacy is compromised. She criticizes the lack of political will in Congress to implement practical solutions, instead using the issue as a partisan bargaining chip or political football.